My approach is centered around helping my clients cultivate self-awareness, release conflict, identify values and goals, and create actionable steps towards achieving them. I am committed to providing a safe, supportive and non-judgmental space for my clients - tailored to your needs so that you can explore your inner world and work towards your desired outcomes. Let's work together to help you know yourself and create the life you deserve.
Several principles are held as a foundation for my work:
Transformational Professional Experience
Formal Education
Trauma and Relationship certificates - Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (formerly Hakomi Integrative Somatics Institute)
Certified EMDR Trauma facilitator
MA studies in Somatic Psychology, Body Psychology concentration - Naropa University
Certified Alchemical Hypnotherapist
Certified Acupressure, Reflexology and Polarity practitioner
Akashic Records certification
Holotropic Breathwork certification
BS in Managment, with Computer Science and International Marketing concentration, Organizational Psychology minor - Georgia Institute of Technology
Certified Toastmaster (CTM)
Here are a few moments to inspire you to celebrate your own journey and to know that amazing things can happen at any age
Like many of us even as a child I was interested in knowing what life was all about. Why are we here? Is there more to life than what I'm being told? Being a miltary brat, the constant moving helped me embrace change at a young age and look for a deeper understanding of life as a way to feel more grounded, empowered, and balanced. My father was an abusive, alcoholic, military cop who mostly expressed anger because he had not released his own childhood wounding, so becoming intuitive at an early age was essential for me to feel safe. Connecting with my spirit guides started early, and so did my love of animals and nature. When I was 5, my babysitter Colette took me to her high school in Colorado Springs, and even then I asked her fellow students "When do I learn what life is really about?" Some laughed at me, others were surprised, and some called me a "wise, old man" (because my hair was platinum blonde). I was saddened yet determined because no one seemed to have a real answer for me -
so my spiritual journey began.
While living in England from ages 7-9, I began to be more interested in death, spirit and the afterlife. Even my father, who mostly doesn't believe in any of this "woo-woo" stuff as he calls it, will still say "I don't believe in ghosts - except in England". I began reading ghost stories - not from wanting to be scared, but from wanting to understand. I was intrigued by an event which happened to my mom's friend, who liked playing the church organ, until the tapestry on the wall moved while she was playing. Although she got scared, it only brought up more questions and made me wonder about our connection with spirit. My parents were fanatical about visiting castles, historic sites and antique shops, and that is when I discovered that I could feel, sense and sometimes see what had happened in certain places.
In Germany when I was 10, I had a pivotal moment in questioning organized religion. Growing up Catholic, I always loved the singing but was it just me or were some of the concepts confusing? In one particular interaction in Catechism (that's Sunday School for Catholics) I asked about the Holy Trinity. The answer I received was so convoluted, especially about the Holy Spirit, that I kept asking her questions which only made it worse. I left thinking "If you can't give a kid a clear answer then you don't really know" - so I never went back. I spent a lot of time roaming the forests around Sembach Air Force base, communing with nature, enjoying the wildlife, and wondering about my questions. Since that time, I have always enjoyed going into nature when I want a deeper dive into life.
At 12 I first read "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" by Richard Bach - and it changed my life. I realized that it was fiction but I had never read anything spiritual before, and the concepts seemed to jump start me even more on my path. That same year I saw Star Wars and the concept of the Force - an energy and consciousness that was in everything, which we could learn how to use - resonated strongly within me. It was only later in life that I understood the Force was essentially another term for the Holy Spirit - not the church definition that was given to me, but the active, energetic agent on the planet which responds to us, especially when we are free of internal conflict. So as an adult, I finally received the understanding that I searched for in Sunday school.
At 21 I was working on a fraternity pledge paddle which I had fashioned into a sword, when I had a life changing epiphany. I realized that the typical American dream of nice job, big house and family were not going to be enough for me. Nothing wrong with that, but I longed for something more and was determined to either discover what that might be or create something new. Taking some time to reflect on my future, a feeling of joy swept through me as I realized that I wanted to help others in the field of psychology and spirituality - though I had no idea what I was actually going to do. After the epiphany of "divine discontent" with regular life as I called it, I embarked on a sacred travel tour that summer through Europe, backpacking to many sacred places I felt drawn to such as Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland, the village of Glastonbury, UK and Rudolf Steiner's Goetheanum in Switzerland.
The next year while still in college I founded a metaphysical organization dedicated to bringing prominent teachers, mystics, and healers to the Georgia Tech campus. I worked at the Ascension Principle center in Atlanta with Dr Gary Bonnell, where I participated in transformational retreats and classes that covered topics such as astral projection, ascension, Akashic Records, relationships, manifesting and much more. Years later I would see clients and teach internationally at his healing and practical mystery school in Tokyo, Japan, which was founded in 2007 and is now called The Knowing School for Mystical Studies.
My final summer in undergrad college I spent working at the Grand Canyon and had a life-changing experience at Lake Powell. While kneeling at the water's edge on the beach and splashing water in my face, I suddenly found myself in another body in another life, kneeling in exactly the same way at the lake. I could still feel myself in my body and hear the surroundings at Lake Powell but was seeing and hearing from the other life as well. It felt like it lasted a very long time but in reality was probably about 20 seconds. Because each moment of each lifetime is connected to every other moment (like a spider's web), when we have a similar thought, emotion, food, clothing, when we experience a similar job or location, when we meet people we have known in other lives - then this present moment can either bring up memories or in my case literally transport my consciousness to the other life. Once the joy of this expansive experience yielded to feeling scared about not knowing how to fully come back to this life, I found myself completely back here again. It was life changing.
The rest of my twenties were a transition and preparation period - working in the corporate world with software engineering, technical writing, training and management roles, releasing my own conflict and healing, while gaining education and experience to work with clients and students. I started working with clients in 1994, and by 2003 started traveling to work internationally in Japan. By 2001 I focused on an integration of body-centered psychotherapy, Akashic Records consulting, and coaching, including leadership coaching and training business clients at the Wayfinder Institute in Colorado. Began working with spirit professionally in 1998, which increased over the years, especially since 2016 after helping a coma patient in a hospital. Energy healing also became more frequent since 2016, sometimes helping police and hospital patients.
The first time I learned about meditation was as a sophomore in high school at Scott AFB in Illinois. My judo instructor showed us how to clear our minds at the beginning and end of each class. His humorous stories about his experiences at the Kodokan in Japan ignited my passion to understand more about energy. He spoke about being held down on the mat by an old master pushing one finger into his chest and being thrown energetically to the mat without the sensei even touching him.
In college I had the complete Self Realization Fellowship lessons that were sent to students, which included practical techniques and exercises. This was my first understanding of prana/chi/energy and deeper understanding of meditation. His story in Autobiography of a Yogi was not only inspirational because of the various challenges, incredible events and people he interacted with, but this was the first time I read about anyone creating spirituality as a main theme in their life.
She helped me develop intuitively, including several trips to Camp Chesterfield, Indiana, where I learned about various means of connecting with spirit. She was my first metaphysical teacher when I was in college, helping me understand more about tarot, spirit communication and astrology.
Besides learning about a vast array of topics and participating in healing and transformational retreats when working with him, I have taken his astral projection and Akashic Records trainings. I'm grateful for one of his main contributions - clarifying the human experience as a three-fold being - instinctive body, evolving spirit, and static soul - which has helped me understand the human journey, the levels of consciousness, and to help others. He taught me the importance of shifting into "stream of consciousness" and invited me to teach and see clients at the Knowing School for Mystical Studies in Tokyo, Japan.
At a time when I was having difficulty shifting from corporate to service work, reading "The Last Barrier" inspired me tremendously. I read other books of his and prayed to meet a Sufi master. Three years later a Sufi master literally showed up in my television studio for an interview, which was also a life changing event.
Pir Vilayat was the head of the Sufi Order of the West or Sufi Order International as it was called back then (now called Inayati order). His father Hazrat Inayat Khan founded the order, and wrote an incredible book called "The Music of Life", which explores the understanding of spirituality through music and physics. Pir Vilayat was literally the answer to my prayer when I met him in the Green Room of the television studio in Atlanta where I hosted a live interview show. I became an initiate of the Healing Order, and started learning hands-on healing techniques such as polarity, acupressure, massage and reflexology, followed by hypnotherapy, body-centered psychology, and energy healing.
Taught me how to love, look for the positive in life and other people, and to celebrate each moment of life - as well as a ton about cancer treatment. Carla was my partner (see picture above) and an integrative cancer coach, and for 20 years, using western medical methods (surgery, radiation and chemo), integrative and complimentary methods, she went back and forth with brain cancer. The doctors were so impressed they would say things like "please tell us what you're doing because we don't know why you're still alive". Fortunately, I still connect with her in spirit, and she helps with clients, family and friends, especially in a medical capacity.
I spent my junior high and high school summers detassling corn, walking soybean fields, and caring for quarterhorses in central Illinois. My grandad Conley was like a friend, dad and grandfather all rolled into one. It wasn't just that he taught me so many practical things (home construction/demo, gardening, driving, working with horses), but that he was one of the few relatives that I felt I could talk with about anything and be myself. Our wide ranging talks in his huge garden behind his home were legendary for me, and I still connect with him in spirit.
My connection with Kathy is so strong that we could go years without talking and still pick up right where we left off. Besides my Grandad, she is the other relative that I could resonate with on so many levels. She is such a powerful and inspiring force in the world, taking on roles for others as needed such as counselor, mediator, nurturer, advocate, leader/organizer, and animal rescuer. From the first time I met her she has always been such a staunch advocate for me, my journey and now my work.
There are many other teachers, leaders, healers, mystics, friends and partners who have helped in so many ways and to whom I feel immensely grateful, and some of them include:
Elissa Lewis, Osho, Gangaji, Nirmala, Emmanuel Swedenborg, Nostradamus, and all of my Spirit Guides - most especially Mary and Michael.
Enlightened Response - Chris Liaguno
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